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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 1674857, member: 1969"]
[B]Let's talk about Stanford 
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4 of the last 17 bracket submissions have them in.  They were a non player for a while and actually are scary now that I look at them.

As people look for teams to add (and may not be impressed by the AAC and the A-10) they have had to find a power team to add.    And this seems to be the P5 team that is gaining momentum.  They are on a 2 game winning streak with home wins over USC and UCLA,  Nothing really impressive.

It's a total Pac12 ish type resume.   If you look at my posts back in December, I predicted this crap would happen in the Pac 12, and now this is the most exceptional case of it

Stanford is currently 14-12.  They have an RPI of 65.  How can they possibly be considered?
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[*]Despite 12 losses, they have no sub 100 losses.  In face 11 of the 12 losses are against teams in the RPI top 50,
[*]They also have 5 top 50 wins right now.  Oregon and Utah are marquee victories.
[*]SOS 2
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In my view this is just an inbred Pac12 resume where you are protected from bad results, and have plenty of opportunities for quality wins against mediocore teams at home.   4 of the top 50 wins are P12 teams at home.

But if someone simply accepts the numbers of the P12 as "good", then they have a good resume that is hard to poke holes at.    They are 5-11 vs top 50, which by win % is in line with some other P5 teams on the bubble.      And they have literally nothing bad after those 11 losses - who else comes close to that?

So at the end of the day what can be criticized IF you accept all the P12 numbers.    I put that IF because I don't buy them all, but who knows what the committee will do.

So the conclusion is we definetely need to start following Stanford and want them to lose.

A big game tomorrow on the road vs a non tourney team in Arizona St (of course not sub 100 because that is impossible in the P12).    And if they somehow win at Arizona this weekend, I may have a hard time keeping them out.
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